Jumu‘a in a Village

Question

Zayd says that the Jumu‘a prayer is not permissible in a village (qarya), because Imam A‘zam ﵀ established this from the Noble Qur’an, the noble hadith and the reports (athar) of the Companions ﵃, and the practice of the scholars of Deoband is in accordance with it. Bakr says that whoever calls the Jumu‘a prayer in a village impermissible and acts accordingly is one driven away from the [Divine] threshold, like Pharaoh and Qarun; indeed, such a person is accursed and rejected, like Ubayy ibn Khalaf, the chief of…

Answer

(1) Whoever holds that Jumu‘a is fard in a village bears the burden of proof; the one who denies it bears no burden of proof, because the evidence is upon the claimant (لأن البينة على المدعي). Nevertheless, the grounds of Zayd’s statement are the following.

Source: Fatawa Mahmudiyya

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